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When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.
People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.
Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.
For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically in public.
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business
If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.
Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.